Lynn Guest
A Daughter’s Love
Nell Goodman earns just enough from her menial job in a brewery to support herself and her mother, Mabel, until…
Hunting the Eagles
In A.D. 9, the German tribes, led by Arminius, ambushed and massacred three Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest. The…
Blue Moon
Ruby Bateman works as a chambermaid in the best hotel in Worthing, Sussex, a good job during the Depression. However,…
American Baroque
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In the summer of 1835, three strangers saunter into Mohawk, Indiana: an urchin, a scruffy schoolteacher and a scruffier, cheerfully…
Legacy of Greyladies
1915. Greyladies, in Wiltshire, is a manor house, half of which the government has requisitioned to house German refugees while…
The Lion of Mistra
By the early 15th century, Constantinople and Mistra in the Morea are the last relics of a Byzantine Empire now…
A Murder Country
The setting is the Appalachian country, thickly wooded and lightly settled, some time after the Civil War. The Rider believes…
Only a Promise
Ralph Lockwood, Earl of Berwick, encouraged his three schoolfellows to join him in fighting Napoleon’s army in the Peninsula. When…
The Infidel Stain
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1841: Captain William Avery and Blake have separately returned to England after their Indian adventures, which were related in The…
The Trade Secret
Nat Bramble is a young servant who has learned Persian in order to interpret for his master, Sir Anthony Sherley,…
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